The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IHE women OF tn6 fTeSDytefldn cnuTcn are
said TO have raised in this country within the
last sixteen years So, 10000 for missions
CHARLES Fl. HoKE, of St. Louis, includes in his
collection of coins the original of medal struck
to commemorate the capture of Roman city
by Attila III III, A D.
1 H. w. STEVENS and W. J. Spencer engaged il
an eating match in Salem, Ill, last week. The
match was to see which could increase hi
| weight most by eating. Spencer increased his
| weight six and a quarter and Stevens his SIX
and half pounds
THE school officials Of Boston have posted no
tees in all the school buildings of that city, for
bidding the chewing of tobacco by the pupils
| They have even posted the notice in the Girls
High School building, much to the indignation
| of the young women.
| THE Church Army" the Anglican rival OF
the Salvation Army was started about five
years ago by the Rev. William Garlic. a young
| curate of London. 1t employs working1nen to
reach workingmen, and seems to be growing in
strength and influence.
| AN English paper tells a wild tale about an
old German who has invented safe, that on its
lock being tempered with. throws open it's doors.
| seizes and drags and locks in the burglar and
| handouts and holds him in readiness to be con-
| Quoted to the police court in the morning.
The trustees of Harvard University. COM
| posed of G. F. Hoar, ex-Gov. Winthrop, Profs.
Putnam, Heaton, and others, have bought sixty
acres of land in Baton township. Adams county,
| O., on which is situated the famous Serpent
Mound, paying therefore $4,000. The party
Will make national park of the tract.
Mas. CATHERINE BARBERRY, of Niles. Mich, 60
years old has an invalid husband and though
she weighs but IS pounds, she shears sheep.
builds fences, shells corn, digs potatoes, makes
garden, makes clothing, takes care of the stoC k
and has done all the other odd jobs that go to
make life one continuous round of hilarity.
DRUMMERs practice scheme to circumvent
that clause of the interstate law relating to
charges for excess of baggage. When the drum
eral tickets to his place of destination On thes e
he cheeks his baggage. Then he sells the tickets
he doesn't want, and of course he is all right.
HARRINGTON, NEB., furnishes a specimen of
brutality to a dumb beast that entities Charlc y
Miller to fat berth in the penitentiary stone
pile. Miller found a neighbours horse on his
land. Armed with the wrath of maniac and a
fish spear he pursued and butchered the animal
in a horrible manner. He was arrested and
| bound over to the District Court for trial.
jim SHANKs, a young farm hand, of Genessee
county, Mich, was smitten with the charms of
pretty school ma am in the village, and asked
her one evening if he might escort her to an en-
tertainment. She declined the invitation rather
CURLY, whereupon the enraged gallant smashed
rested and fined for his reprehensibe conduct.
THE latest remedy for dyspepsia is "Gofio,"
which a recent writer has discovered in the
Canary Islands. 1t is an article of diet pleasant
to the taste. nutritious and easily digested. 10
is made of roasted corn wheat, maize or barley,
or mixture of two of these grains The grain
is more than parched it is, SO to speak, cooked
before it is ground Gofio, therefore. needs no
other preparation than to be mixed with water
or some other liquid into paste.
JOE WEIGH, II years old, has arrived in Hele-
ma, Mont, from county Armagh, Irelaud after
travelling all the way alone. He had tag
pinned on his coat labeled, ''Send this boy to
Helena, Montana and be good to him. He is an
orphan Although the boy talks little but
Irish Gaelic he understands English, and at
times on his long trip he would go astray While
in transit from the steamer to the railroad, and
coach to vessel but his label got him around all
right.
TENNESSEE has two streams called Daddy and
Nanny creeks. They were named away back
when the State was first settled. husband
and wife riding along on horseback began quar-
reling, and when they arrived at the first stream
the former soundly cuffed his wife. He then
named the stream Daddy creek. They logged
along still quarreling till they came to the sec
ond creek, when the woman picked up the limb
of a tree and felled her companion. and tri-
umphantly named the water Nanny creek
A HEN, half black Spanish and half game, has
been doing a land Office business in Rolla, Mo.
She laid her first egg on May 10, 1886, and has
laid an egg every day since. She went to setting
soon as she layed her first egg and is still on
her nest. She comes off every morning to get
water and food, and then goes back She has
Matched one egg day except the ffFst three
weeks of her career. She has now been laying
one year, and is the mother and hatcher of 344
| chickens, one-half pullets and the other half
| roosters-and she still looks well
WHEN Col John Hay is asked what decidedly
seems an impertinent question, Are you the
| author of The Bread Winners?' he answers
with a bland smile: 'In general have not
much to conceal. but this thing is q secret of six
| of us who have been accused by the public of
| this fiagrancy. Now, if five of us separately
| confess that we are not the guilty party it con
vcts the sixth defendant, and we have mntu-
| ally decided to stand by the author of The
! Bread Winners in his secret sin. You see the
situationr' The correspondent of the Balti-
| more NebcS saw it, when presented to him the
| other day.
THERE arrived in San Francisco recently a
little German girl who travelled alone from
her native land. Her name is Cresencis
| Schwartz, and her age is II years. without
| understanding one word of English this little
| Teutonic maiden traversed the broad Atlantic
| Ocean and crossed the American continent
| without a companion trusting solely for her
| safety during her 1000 miles journey on the
! kindness of the people whom she CHANGED to
| meet Her widowed mother in Germany was
| too poor to support her, and an uncle In San
| Francisco having offered to adopt her the
mother prepared a little baggage gave kiss of
| farewell and dispatched her daughter on the
| long journey, which occupied two months
TIE same diversity of opinion as to the best
form of locomotive for general use appears to
| prevail in England as in America. While coupled
wheels are mostly preferred for passenger en-
gines, five feet TO six feet six inches in diam
| eter, a few leading American engineers
prefer single drivers, and are disposed to revert
| to even seven feet, diameter which has been
| tried and abandoned in the past as not meeting
| the expectations entertained of it. About fif-
/ teen years is the estimated average life of an
| American locomotive. 1t is generally admitted
| that railway trains in England are driven at a
| faster rate of speed than in the United States
| say about % per cent. in excess of the lat
| ter. There are express trains however, between
| some of our principal cities that compare ia
vorably with those in England.
ABOUT five years ago Mr.. Felkin, one of the
Uganda missionaries, complained TO Mtesa that
his majesty had not kept the missionary larder
well stocked, Us he had agreed, and the mis-
slonaries were actually suffering for food. A
happy thought struck the King. He gave an
order to an attendant and i'm a few minutes
eighteen buxom young women came marching
| in with big baskets of bananas on their heads
Take these wcmen for your wives " said Mtesa
They will dig in your garden, raise your food
and cook il. Take them and don't bother me